McCain criticizes Obama plan on detainees [open to sending detainees to CONUS "case by case"]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday condemned the Obama Administration for placing a deadline on the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay without having a solid plan for what to do with its detainees.

“What should have taken place, in my view, was the announcement of the closing and an announcement of exactly how we’re going to put these people on trial, (and) where you’re going to put people that are enemy combatants,” he said.

“I would say, I’m not going to close Guantanamo until I have a comprehensive approach to every aspect of this problem,” McCain said.

McCain left open the possibility of having some of the prisoners moved to the United States, but said he would want to judge their situations on a “case-by-case basis.”

Politico: McCain criticizes Obama on Guantanamo

ABC News Transcript: Transcript: National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

MCCAIN: I would certainly be -- would -- well, I don't know if I would be "opposed" to it, because I would probably want to judge them on a case-by-case basis. I understand the local objection. And senators and congressmen objection to saying, here are some people that we're just going to dump onto the community.

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I'm for closing Guantanamo, and I said I was for closing it. But I'm for a comprehensive solution of all of the issues surrounding Guantanamo, which now obviously are facing serious roadblocks in Congress, because the announcement was made without addressing the underlying problems associated.

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I think we're kind of in a word game here. I don't want to moderate, either. I think our policies, the principles of our party are as viable today as they have in the past. In all due respect, the previous administration, by letting spending get completely out of control, by betraying some of those principles of our party, cost us a couple of elections.

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Now, I don't agree with my daughter on specific issues. I still love my daughter and I respect her views and I think there is a place for her in the Republican Party. I do. I think we've got to broaden our - enlarge our tent and at the same time stick to our fundamental principles which are right of center.

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McCain is the poster child for what is wrong with the GOP.

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Go away Johnny....and take your fat daughter with you.

I still love my daughter and I respect her views and I think there is a place for her in the Republican Party.

Leave it to McCain to say that the GOP should welcome hardcore liberal Democrats with open arms. Of course, he also thinks that we should welcome gang bangers, drug smugglers, and criminals from south of the border as "God's children," so this is not exactly unexpected.

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